Picture-frame



(No Model.)

M. HERSKOVITZ. PICTURE FRAME.

o. 605,821. Patent ed'June 14, 1898..

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MAX HERSKOVITZ, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PICTURE-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ratent No. 605,821, dated June 14, 1898.

' Application filed December 1897. Serial No. 663,736. ,(No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX HERsKovITz, aci'tizen of the United States, residing at Chicago,

in the county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Glass Picture-Frames, of which the following is a specification;

My invention is related to the pressed-glass and earthenware industries as an article of manufacture; and the object of my improvement is to provide a better method of fixing 'the picture, glass, and backing to the frame.

Thepresent method of gluing or sliding them in grooves is unsatisfactory and insecure. I attain these objects by a mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view of a frame with picture fixed in it." Fig. 2 is a back View of the entire frame with a portion of the bindingring B cut away. Fig. 3 is a side view,'partly in vertical section, cut at A, showing all parts of the frame.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throu ghout the several views.

The circular rim a, Fig.3, formed at a right angle to the plane of the frame, is provided with lugsa at suitable distances apart on the outside. Between the lugs small perforations a Fig. 2, are made in the rim horizontal with the plane of the frame. An annularring B of metal, provided with a flange turned inwardlyat a right angle to the plane of the frame, is formed, the ring being large enough Grooves b to fit ouside and over the rim a. are swaged outwardly in the sides of the ring, inclining slightly from the plane of the ring,

provided with openings on the lower edge of the ring. The grooves are situated at dis tances to correspond with the lugs on the rim of the frame.

The glass C is placed in the rabbet. The picw The bindingring is then placed over the rim,with the openings in the grooves 12 opposite'to the lugs 0t,

and is then pressed down until the lugs will enter. the inclining portion of the grooves, as shown at a, Fig. 3. Then by turning the binding-ring .to the right or left, as the case ,may be, the contents of the frame will be closely pressed together. When in this position, apertures b are made in the ring opposite to the apertures a in therim to receive pins f. The pin f is an ordinary brass binding-pin, such as is used in fastening legal papers together, having two legs. The pin f is put through the apertures in the ring and through the aperture in the rim a The legs of the pin are then bent to the right and left, as shown in Fig. 2. The object of the pins f is to prevent the ring from working loose.

I do not wish to confine myself to a circular frame exclusively, as the same binding device may be used on a square frame, as the binding frame or ring with inclining grooves may be moved longitudinally onto lugs and the perforations in said ring adapted to receive the pins; the pins f adapted to fix the ring to the frame; substantially as described.

" MAX HERSKOVITZ.

Witnesses:

HOWARD BISHOP, M. E. GREGG. 

